Wednesday, December 31, 2014

j'ai rêvé la nuit verte aux neiges éblouies...*



 the ascension of viridescent clouds towards mars
obligates the secular twilight of the northern skies

 with scant deposits of crystalline dust upon black earth
are small gatherings in quick time before night falls

and closes up tight behind a serpentine continuum
without the veiled urgency of an unstoppable flow...

"Les Fleuves m'ont laissé descendre où je voulais
Dans les clapotements furieux des marées..."*

["The rivers let me drift down where I would
Down through the furious splashing of the tides..."]


* selected lines from "Le Bateau ivre" by Arthur Rimbaud [1854-1891]

Friday, December 26, 2014

j'ai rêvé du ciel rougeoyant...



 the year is ending in flashes of infrared red
floated into the ambiguity of a porous reveal


 in the darkness sprouting rare amanita crowns
to ignite the delirium pulled into a frozen net


 of silver threads wrapped in concrete foil
spark growth the evercrimson tree of lucidity


free-soaring into the cardinal space of night
with no full safety floor to turn back to...